Sunday, 7 December 2025

NEW TITLE NEWS: VOTIVE OFFERINGS

VOTIVE OFFERINGS

Sarob Press is truly delighted to announce the forthcoming publication of VOTIVE OFFERINGS.

Four ‘all new’ long stories (or novelettes) imbued with the mystery and otherworldliness of place and of landscape – strange, secret, mystical and ancient.

In “Roman Masks” by Mark Valentine art college teachers and their students in north west England invoke, through strange ritual, ancient gods and terrible dark forces at a coastal temple ruin.

John Howard’s weirdly enigmatic “Desire Path” takes the unwary reader along pathways long forgotten and thought lost ~ but what if you could walk along ways that no longer exist?

“Figures in a Landscape” by Peter Bell finds its heroine seeking a lost (or possibly mythic) Welsh hill figure and discovering the seemingly harmless to be anything but.

Colin Insole’s “The April Rainers” is a tale of the re-emergence of something old, powerful and malevolent, and the story of the centuries-old fellowship pledged to protect the land and keep it safe from the terror.

VOTIVE OFFERINGS will be a Hand Numbered Limited Edition Jacketed Hardcover.

Bound in Camel colour Cialux Italian cloth/linnen, Foil Blocked to Front & Spine in Silver, Quality Enzo Creamy Text Paper, Marble/Print Design Endpapers, Section (Thread)-Sewn binding, Head/Tailbands and Ribbon Bookmarker. Approx 128pp including prelims etc.

Edited by Robert Morgan. Full Colour Dust-Jacket Art by the ever brilliant Paul Lowe.

Publication currently scheduled (loosely as always) for mid-late January 2026.


PRICES

UK:

OPTION 1 ~ UK:  PRE PUBLICATION OFFER* @ UK £40.00 (inclusive of Postage and Packing within the UK)

*PLEASE NOTE: Valid until publication ONLY (payment MUST be received by publication date for Pre-Publication Offer. An email reminder will be sent 7-10 days before the books are due to touch down from my printer for any folk who have RESERVED a copy without payment to allow them to send payment in good time).

OPTION 2 ~ UK:  POST PUBLICATION @ UK £45.00 (inclusive of Postage and Packing and sent DELIVENGO from France) (Orders OR Payments Received AFTER Publication)


Both OPTIONS provide TRACKING

NOTE: The increase in price for OPTION 2 (which I’ve kept as low as possible) is wholly due to an increase in the cost of posting from FRANCE.

 

EUROPE :  50,00 EUROS  (inclusive of Postage and Packing and sent DELIVENGO from France)

Provides TRACKING

NOTE: The slight increase in price (which I’ve kept as low as possible) is wholly due to an increase in the cost of posting from FRANCE.


USA & RoW:  USA $70.00

(inclusive of Postage and Packing and, unless systems change for the USA with La Poste, pre-publication orders will probably be posted from the UK. IMPORTANT: La Poste are currently still not accepting small items for the USA and so I’d urge my American friends to order/reserve early so their book can be sent when I visit the UK to post pre-publication orders. I’m not sure when I’ll be able to post USA orders from France and, after my trip to the UK in January, I probably won’t be heading over again until at least May).

For TRACKED delivery please ADD USA $5.00

NOTE: The slight increase in price (which I’ve kept as low as possible) is wholly due to increases in the cost of shipping.

HOW TO ORDER

IMPORTANT: Please provide both an email address and telephone number when ordering as these are now required by the postal companies.


E-mail sarobpress@gmail.com to order/reserve your copy and make payment by one of the methods detailed below.


HOW TO PAY
Paypal: visit
www.paypal.com and send payment using our e-mail address sarobpress@gmail.com

Cheque (payable to ROBERT MORGAN) [UK Bank UK£ only]

Cash. Cash at Senders Risk. (Europe/USA & RoW ~ Paypal or Cash Only).

 

Cheers, Robert.

Tuesday, 21 October 2025

UPDATE

I’m sorry that I’ve not updated here for a good while but this summer has been a season of total chaos for us.

We were hit by two massive storms in late June, the first with almost tennis-ball sized hail that caused enormous damage to our property and to our two cars (one of which had to be written off).

The second storm took down five of our trees and so for a couple of weeks my chainsaw was red hot as we worked hard to clear the land.

So, rather than finishing off the next Sarob Press volume, and as well as clearing the trees, we’ve been absolutely inundated with masses of insurance paperwork (the French do love paper), and dealing with roofers and builders, and garages etc.

In between we did manage to fit in a pleasant and much needed weeks’ holiday in the sunny Dordogne.

But, just to put everyone at ease… I’m now very close to finishing the next Sarob Press book and hope, all being well, to fully announce VOTIVE OFFERINGS around the middle of next month.

The book is likely to arrive from my printers sometime in mid December (much depends on my printers’ workload)… but I’d probably expect to be shipping no sooner than early-on in January.

Watch this space as they say for a new title announcement in a few weeks or so.

Any changes to this plan (because you never know) I’ll post here.

Cheers, Robert.


Tuesday, 1 July 2025

GHOSTLY QUARTERS ~ SOLD OUT

GHOSTLY QUARTERS by C.E. WARD finally arrived from my book printer, somewhat later than hoped for, and after a quite long and unexpected delay with the courier.

All ordered copies have now been posted and should be arriving in the next week or two/three all being well ~ sometimes, however, the post can, unfortunately, be more than a little uneven.

GHOSTLY QUARTERS by C.E. WARD is already SOLD OUT.

Many thanks, everyone, for your continued support.

Cheers, Robert.

Sunday, 27 April 2025

NEW TITLE NEWS: GHOSTLY QUARTERS

GHOSTLY QUARTERS ~ C.E. WARD

Sarob Press is spookily delighted to present a new volume of ghost stories by C.E. Ward. Stories of dark deeds, supernatural evils, weird black magic and of terrible and dread-filled ghostly vengeance. C.E. Ward is, possibly, one of the most Jamesian of authors writing today (he is a life-long admirer of M.R. James and of all things darkly supernatural and ghostly), and his stories are replete with well researched historical detail and a brooding, chilling and (dare I say again) ghostly atmosphere… so here are four wholly original and all new lengthy tales (the four ‘quarters’) to best enjoy, perhaps, late at night (preferably, if one’s eyes allow, by candlelight, before a roaring log fire and with a glass of something rather particular to hand). Mr Ward is the author of the Sarob Press volumes, Vengeful Ghosts, Seven Ghosts and One Other, Malevolent Visitants, Legionnaire and An Unheavenly Host.

Stories:  “Promenade Walk (19,259 words)” “Some Episodes of a Family History (16,761 words)” “Where His Feet Pass (17,725 words)” & “Warlock’s End (19,225 words)”

[All four stories are previously unpublished and were written expressly for this volume]

GHOSTLY QUARTERS is a Hand Numbered Limited Edition Jacketed Hardcover.  Bound in Silver Cialux Italian cloth/linnen, Foil Blocked to Front & Spine, Quality Enso Creamy Text Paper, Marble Design Endpapers, Section (Thread) Sewn binding, Head/Tailbands and Ribbon Bookmarker.

Approx 176pp including prelims etc.

Full Colour Dust-Jacket and black & white Frontispiece Art by Paul Lowe.

Publication currently scheduled for late May/early June 2025.

PRICES  ... (inclusive of Postage and Packing)

UK:  £40.00

EUROPE :  48,00 Euros

USA & Rest of World:  USA $65.00  /  USA $70.00 (Tracked*)

*I’ve noticed a number of items sent tracked of late have not been scanned by the post services as they should and have arrived safely at their destination without their route being fully “tracked”. This is, of course, out of my control … please bear this in mind when choosing tracked shipping.

HOW TO ORDER   E-mail sarobpress@gmail.com to order/reserve your copy and make payment by one of the methods detailed below.

HOW TO PAY
Paypal: visit
www.paypal.com and send payment using our e-mail address sarobpress@gmail.com

Cheque (payable to ROBERT MORGAN) [UK Bank UK£ only]

Cash. Cash at Senders Risk. (Europe/USA & RoW ~ Paypal or Cash Only).

Please Note: we are very sorry but we can no longer accept cheques in USA dollars or any other currency due to changes with our UK banking arrangements.

 

Cheers, Robert.

Saturday, 5 April 2025

NOTES FROM THE SHADOWS ~ SOLD OUT

NOTES FROM THE SHADOWS by Christopher Harman touched down here in sunny France just over a week ago.

All ordered copies have now shipped! Hurrah!

“Notes from the Shadows” was SOLD OUT on publication.

Thanks again everyone for your continued support.

Cheers, Robert.

Sunday, 2 February 2025

NEW TITLE NEWS ~ NOTES FROM THE SHADOWS

CHRISTOPHER HARMAN ~ NOTES FROM THE SHADOWS

Creepy, dank canal pathways, bleak countryside and urban decay, Jamesian terrors, the terrible dark power of music, black magic and weird folk horrors... nine stories to chill the bones... (eight were originally published between 2001 and 2023 and the novella ‘The Notes’ was written expressly and is wholly original to this volume).

Mr Harman’s characters appear doomed, unable to escape the creeping, dreadful horrors that pursue, haunt or lurk in the shadows…

Paul Lowe has (once again) provided a quite exceptional and brilliant dust jacket painting…

Stories: “Windsheer” “Wet Jenny” “Cold Air from the East” “Apple Pie and Sulphur” “Laughing Matter” “Black Water” “A True Yorkshireman” “The Abbey Hoard” and “The Notes”

NOTES FROM THE SHADOWS is a Hand Numbered Limited Edition Jacketed Hardcover.

Bound in Cialux Italian cloth/linnen, Foil Blocked to Front & Spine, Quality Enso Creamy Text Paper, Marble Design Endpapers, Section (Thread) Sewn binding, Head/Tailbands and Ribbon Bookmarker. Approx 200pp including prelims/introduction etc.

Full Colour Dust-Jacket Art by Paul Lowe.

Publication currently scheduled for March 2025.

PRICES  ... (inclusive of Postage and Packing)

UK:  £38.00

EUROPE :  45,00 Euros

USA & Rest of World:  USA $60.00  /  USA $65.00 (Tracked*)

*I’ve noticed a number of items sent tracked of late have not been scanned by the post services as they should and have arrived safely at their destination without their route being fully “tracked”. This is, of course, out of my control … please bear this in mind when choosing tracked shipping.

HOW TO ORDER

E-mail sarobpress@gmail.com to order/reserve your copy and make payment by one of the methods detailed below.


HOW TO PAY


Paypal: visit
www.paypal.com and send payment using our e-mail address sarobpress@gmail.com

Cheque (payable to ROBERT MORGAN) [UK Bank UK£ only]

Cash. Cash at Senders Risk. (Europe/USA & RoW ~ Paypal or Cash Only).

Please Note: we are very sorry but we can no longer accept cheques in USA dollars or any other currency due to changes with our UK banking arrangements.

 

Cheers, Robert.

Monday, 13 January 2025

PAUL LOWE ART PRINTS

Artist Paul Lowe has produced prints of one of his brilliant Sarob Press cover paintings.

This is just the first of (hopefully) many…

The first A3 print is from THE GHOSTS & SCHOLARS BOOK OF FOLLIES AND GROTTOES and is available from Paul now for just UK £10 + shipping.

Full details at Paul’s facebook page here.

Cheers, Robert.